Everyone at a Long Island, New York, graduation ceremony on June 22 did a double take while watching the class of 2025 receive their diplomas — because there were 15 sets of twins!
Out of 447 students in the senior class of Plainview–Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, 30 are fraternal twins, and two sets of sibs even share the same names — Joshua and Rebecca Lipetz, and twins Josh and Rebeccah Grossfeld.
After growing up in the same district, most of the teenagers have known each other since they were knee-high — and even their parents became friends and created a “twin club.”
“It was like a support group,” shared Melissa Lipetz on Today with Jenna & Friends, mom to Joshua and Rebecca.
All 30 students say they’ll head off to college this fall, with majors ranging from interior design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to playing basketball at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Some plan to venture out on their own: Sydney and Kayla Jasser will both study fashion design — but at the University of Delaware and Indiana University, respectively.
“We could have went to the same college, but we just wanted to be able to be independent since we’ve been with each other forever,” Kayla told AP. “It’s good to get out there and have our own experiences.”
Meanwhile, Aiden and Chloe Manzo will stay attached at the hip at the same dorm of the University of Florida. “We’re very excited about this decision,” Aiden said on the Today show, noting that they both will major in business.
It wasn’t the school’s only graduating class featuring a torrent of twins: According to Principal Heather Dvorak, the class of 2014 had nine sets of twins — and even a set of triplets!
